About
Tina Tahir, both a German and US national, is a doctoral candidate in German studies and a graduate of the Museum Studies Program at the University of Michigan. She received an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was awarded the George H. Roeder Fellowship for her MA thesis work, “The Poetics of Destruction. A Visual Compendium of Ruins and Trümmerfloren”. In 2016, she was a fellow with the transdisciplinary consortium Field Trip/Field Notes/Field Guide (U of C, UIC, SAIC). Earlier, she had received an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Her interests span the modernisms of Vienna and Berlin, Visual Studies, Cultural Memory, Museum Studies, Art History, and Feminism. Her research focus is on the role memory plays in the fields of visual art and the linking of aesthetics and politics in the reconstruction of post-traumatic, post-war, and post-violence histories. As a native speaker of German, she taught German classes (101, 102, 231), and 386 (discussion).
In the past, she had a career in fashion photography before turning her focus on visual arts and research. From 2003 to date, she exhibited her artwork, including much-noted installations, in international group shows and galleries in the USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Greece, the United Kingdom, and the UAE where she was the winner of the installation category at the Global Art Awards.
